[ 16/02/2011 – 09:37 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian political analyst Hani Al-Masri said that the steps taken by the Fatah-controlled Palestinian authority (PA) including the cabinet reshuffle and the call for local elections cannot limit the impacts of the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions. This is not the kind of change which the West […]

PressTV – Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:6AM The UN Security Council The UN Security Council (UNSC) is to vote on a resolution that calls for a cessation of Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories. “A vote will be held on the resolution, filed by Arab diplomats, regardless of all the pressure Washington would […]

[ 15/02/2011 – 08:23 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli Magistrate Court could not hamper bulldozers headed Tuesday for the estate of the Abu Taa’ah family in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah district. The UN has mapped East Jerusalem for the Palestinians and considers Jewish settlement activity there illegal. ”When I arrived at the property […]

20:18 02/15/2011 It is as if prospect of democratic Egypt is prelude to Armageddon. (Aljazeera) By Mohamed El Mokhtar It felt sometimes quite depressing, and indeed demeaning, to be an Arab, living or going to school in America, during the Second Intifada, and hear ad nauseum the same old refrain chanted every minute in every […]

19:49 02/15/2011 It is not arms, billions of dollars, secret police .. that decide history. By James Petras The mass movements which forced the removal of Mubarak reveal both the strength and weaknesses of spontaneous uprisings. On the one hand, the social movements demonstrated their capacity to mobilize hundreds of thousands, if not millions, in […]

[ 15/02/2011 – 07:41 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired rubber bullets at a group of young men in Beit Ummar north of Al-Khalil wounding four of them on Tuesday evening. Medical sources said that all four sustained light injuries in their heads and necks. The IOF troops had stormed the […]

Tuesday February 15, 2011 20:59 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Palestinian medical sources reported, on Tuesday evening, that a Palestinian youth was shot and wounded by settlers fire near Jaloud village, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank. Ghassan Douglas, in charge of the settlements file in the northern […]

Posted by desertpeace at PS.HADNEWS.COM on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 5:21 pm. This image, ‘Copyleft’ by Carlos Latuff says all that this post is about…. a Tribute to Om Kamel Throughout history mankind’s existence has been threatened by various plagues, usually in the form of infectious diseases. Modern times call for modern threats, not […]